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Terrebonne Sheriff: Woman stabs ex-girlfriend in altercation

The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman after her ex-girlfriend was cut on the finger and stabbed in the eye.

Deputies say they responded to a hospital where a 29-year-old woman was suffering from stab wounds.

She told deputies that she went to her former girlfriend Latoya Vincent’s home in the 100 block of McQuin Court in Gray at about 1 p.m. Saturday in order to pick up her personal belongings, according to deputies.

Deputies say the woman said that she and Vincent got into an argument which turned into a physical altercation.

Vincent grabbed a knife and cut the victim on her right ring finger and stabbed her in her left eye, the victim told deputies.

The victim was released from the hospital.

Deputies arrived at Vincent’s home and questioned her.

Vincent told deputies that she knew that the victim was on the way to her home in order to start a fight with her so she armed herself with a knife, they say.

Vincent told deputies that during the altercation the victim tried to take the knife out of her hand when the victim was cut on her finger, and she did not know how that victim was stabbed in the eye.

Deputies arrested Vincent, 37, on a charge of aggravated second-degree battery, they say.

According to deputies, Vincent also had an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court.

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